Mailing-tube



(No Model.)

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GEORGE P. MCINT'YRE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MAILING-TUBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,860, dated August 21, 1894.

Application tiled October 27, 1893. Serial No. 489,308. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. MCINTYRE, a citizen of the United States,`residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mailing-Tubeaof which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of receptacles, more commonly provided in tube form, and known as mailingtubes, used for holding such articles to be transmitted through the mail as are subject to inspection; and which tubes, therefore, are

required to permit ready access totheir con-v tents and thus may not be sealed against it.

The objects of my invention are to provide simple and inexpensive, but effective, means for closing the receptacle to retain its contents and which shall be readily unfastened, to permit the desired inspectiomand again fastened; and to afford, for the tubular receptacle, a peculiarly desirable construction.

Referring to the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a plan view of the blank from which my improved mailing-tube is formed in accordance with my preferred construction. Figs. 2, 3 and 4. are views of details. Fig. 5 is a view in vertical sectional elevation of the tube lformed from the blank. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the finished tube in its closed condition.

A is the blank, the body of which may be formed of any suitably pliable material or materials, though so far as I am at present aware, adequately stiff paper or pasteboard is best for the purpose by reason of its cheapness and lightness and the facility it affords of manipulation to form the tube withit. Moreover the water proof variety of paper may be used for my purpose, when desired,

its extension, as shown, and having secured to it a fastener C, the form shown of which is preferred, the same being a cord or section of tape secured at its center to the cloth to adapt the .ends to be wound and tied about the throat of the cloth-extension when the latter is gathered together as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

To lform the tube D from the blank A, I first coat one surface of the section r, between the dotted lines q2, with a suitable cement. Then the section fr is bent into tubular form to cause its outer edge a; to meet the vdotted line indicating theline of junction between the two sections of the blank, and the section fr is folded or wrapped with its cement-covered surface about the outer circumference of the section r', to which it is caused to adhere and form the permanent tube D. Inasmuch as the lateral edges of the section fr then coincide with the lines q2 on the section r, annular shoulders p and p are formed inside the tube near its opposite ends by the extensions q and q; and as the edge-portion of the cloth B, where it is cemented to the section r', is contiguous, at its outer surface, to aportion of the cement-covered surface of the section r, it becomes cemented also to the latter, and thus to the surfaces of both sections oiithe blank, between which it is, therefore, the more securely held.

The shoulders p and p aiord seats for diskshaped covers E and F. at the upper and lower ends of the tube. The cover E is permanently fastened in place, the means I employ for-so fastening it being a paper or analogous band n inserted against the cover and cemented to the inner wall of the tube, whereby the cover is held between the annular band and the shoulder p. The cover E is removable, being provided with a handle o by which to manipulate it, and seats against the shoulder 10 inside the hood formed by the cloth extension B.

The article to be mailed maybe readily introduced into the tube when the cover E 'is removed and the hood B is untied; whereupon, to secure the contents, the'cover is adjusted, and the hood gathered together and tied with the cord C, to prepare the tube for mailing.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. 1. Amailing tube comprisingatubular body IOO ` having internal 'shoulders near its opposite 2. A blank A for a mailing tube D, said ends, a cover seated against one 0f said shoulblank comprising the differential sections o" ders and permanently fastened in place, a and fr', and a hood-extension B of cloth, or the cover removably seated against the opposite like, on the section on', and provided with a 5 shoulder, a hood of cloth fastened betweenV fastener C, substantially as and for the pur-I r 5 the folds of the tube to extend at the end propose set forth.

vided with the removable cover and adapted l GEORGE P. MCINTYRE. to be gathered and tied, and a tying medium In presence ofof flexible material on the hood, substantially M. J. FROST,

Io as described. W. U. WILLIAMS. 

